2024 Tour de France Stage 4 Results & Recap
Stage 4 of the 2024 Tour de France is in the books. The final results and standings are below, followed by our recap of how the race unfolded.
Race Recap
Pogacar dominates the Galibier
Tadej Pogacar attacked 800 meters from the top of the Galibier and crested the summit 10 seconds ahead of Jonas Vingegaard. In the descent, he extended his lead while the defending champion was joined by Remco Evenepoel, Primoz Roglic, Carlos Rodriguez and Juan Ayuso. Pogacar won the race with a 35-second lead to take back the yellow jersey.
Mads Pedersen attacked after six kilometres, aiming for the intermediate sprint at kilometre 18.9. Wout Poels, Kevin Geniets, Frank van den Broek, Harold Tejada, and Magnus Cort then tracked the Dane down.
The six were caught 2 kilometres before the intermediate sprint. Pedersen didn't mind, because he won the sprint anyway.
In the course of the first climbs a break of 17 riders took shape. Christopher Juul-Jensen, Julien Bernard, Bruno Armirail, David Gaudu, Romain Grégoire, Valentin Madouas, Mathieu van der Poel, Stephen Williams, Oier Lazkano, Raúl Pierna, Cristián Rodríguez, Kobe Goossens, Warren Barguil, Alexey Lutsenko, Odd Christian Eiking, Tobias Halland Johannessen, and Mathieu Burgaudeau put three minutes into the peloton.
Williams won the KOM sprint in Sestrières and at the Col de Montgenèvre.
The attackers tackled the Galibier almost three minutes ahead of the peloton. It was down to one minute when Lazkano headed out alone. Juul-Jensen, Gaudu, and Johannessen rejoined the Spaniard.
Lazkano went again with 10 kilometres left to climb. Moments later, Simon Yates, Tom Pidcock, and yellow jersey Richard Carapaz were dropped from the GC group on the lower slopes of the Galibier.
While the atttackers were gobbled up, the GC was down to Juan Ayuso, João Almeida, Tadej Pogacar, Jonas Vingegaard, Remco Evenepoel, Mikel Landa, Primoz Roglic, and Carlos Rodriguez in the last kilometre of the Galibier.
Pogacar accelerated in the last 800 metres of the climb. Vingegaard immediately sat on his wheel but was dropped 300 metres later. Pogacar earned a time bonus of 8 seconds, Vingegaard took 4, and Evenepoel took 2.
Second by second, Pogačar pulled further away in the descent, while Rodriguez, Roglic and Ayuso opened the chase on Vingegaard. They made the catch in the last five kilometres before Evenepoel caught up a little later.
Pogacar flew to victory and regained the yellow jersey, while Evenepoel crossed the line 35 seconds later in second place. Vingegaard finished another two seconds later in fifth.
Pogacar leads the Tour with a 45 seconds advantage over Evenepoel and 50 seconds over Vingegaard.
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